Updating System Firmware With Ode - HP Visualize b160L Supplementary Manual

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Boot Console Interface

Updating System Firmware with ODE

Updating System Firmware with ODE
The Offline Diagnostic Environment (ODE) consists
of diagnostic modules for testing and verifying system
operation. The update utility of ODE provides the
capability of updating the PDC/IODC firmware from
the LIF directory onto the EEPROM.
ODE is an ISL utility. To invoke ODE and bring up the
update utility:
1 Invoke the ISL environment from the system disk.
2 Type ode after the
ISL>
LIF directory on the system disk. The prompt changes to
.
ODE>
3 At the prompt, type update to bring up the update
ODE>
utility. The prompt changes to
The following commands may be entered at the
prompt:
UPDATE>
• help - prints a one line description of each of the
available commands in the update utility.
• info - prints information on how to use the update
utility.
• run - updates the PDC of the workstation from the
LIF directory.
• image - allows you to specify which LIF images to
use.
• expert - enables/disables exit pausing and run confir-
mation for expert users.
• exit - resets the workstation so the new PDC can run.
To run the update utility, type run at the
prompt. After update loads the new images into mem-
ory, it asks if you want to continue the update process,
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prompt to invoke ode from the
.
UPDATE>
UPDATE>